Why Should I Care About Same-Sex Marriage?

I’ve been wondering if the determination to control the message might explain the White House guest list for the Pope’s reception. ((Vatican pushes back over White House invite to Catholic Dissidents, Catholic New Agency, September 18, 2015. Available: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/vatican-pushes-back-over-white-house-invite-to-catholic-dissidents-51001/))

I say this because I’m getting tired of the same-sex marriage issue taking over the conversation.In fact, I’m tired of the LGBT issue, period.I ended up writing this blog because of Wikipedia’s misogyny–women’s rights were my focus and with good reason–but instead of making headway on this problem women have been blindsided with legislation limiting reproductive rights, while in the same period the same-sex marriage initiative has been a great success.

It’s not hard to make the case that fighting misogyny is more important to our society than same-sex marriage. Half the U.S. population of 319 million is female while Americans identifying as gay or lesbian make up only 1.6 percent of the population, and those who consider themselves bisexual represent only .7 percent. Yet the LGBT issue vaults ahead, both in the media and in the courts.

Many thought it was surprising that the Supreme Court approved this measure, but considering the character of these justices this should have made us suspicious about the potential uses of this issue.What has happened here, besides the drowning out of women’s issues in the media, is that women have finally been made irrelevant.Now men can marry and adopt children, while single women continue to lose their babies to adoption.